Decoding Love (1)

The risk of love

is that of being unreturned

For if I love too deep,

too hard, too long

and you love me little

or you love

me not at all

then is my treasure given,

gone,

flown away lonely

But if you give me back

passion for my passion,

return my burning,

add your own

dark fire to flame my heart

then is love perfect

hot, round, augmented

whole, endless, infinite,

and it is fear

that flies

~ Luci Shaw